What We Do

Priority Areas

Our focus is on the drivers and disesases that affect lung health: Tobacco,
indoor air pollution, asthma and tuberculosis (TB). We also concentrate on child
and maternal health.

Health CommunicationsWLF
influences health behavior through targeted communications campaigns that
respect local conditions and culture. To date the organization has spearheaded
tobacco control communications initiatives in nearly 30 countries.

Capacity BuildingPowerful and
enduring public health interventions require communities to have a strong health
infrastructure and the tools to be self-sufficient. WLF has helped make that
possible with support to build new operating rooms in Tanzania, and by
establishing international tobacco control country offices across the
world.

Operational ResearchWLF supports
lung health research to strengthen clinical practice and guide sound policy. Its
studies have broadened the evidence base for action. We do this in many ways,
from dentifying effective ways to administer TB therapy to analyzing tobacco
taxation policies.